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|summary= A woman wakes up with amnesia surrounded by dead people wearing gloves. In her pocket she discovers a letter from Myfanwy Thomas, the previous inhabiter of her body. Myfanwy tells a strange story of working for 'the Checquy', There's a paranormal version part of MI5 which has been permeated by a web of betrayal and danger. The problem is me that Myfanwy never discovered the source before her body changed hands (so wants to speak)keep this just to myself for however long I can. The amnesiac has a clear choice: This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to continue Myfanwy's investigation or to do enjoy it for a runnerwhile. It's her decision but Myfanwy's warning is less than encouraging:

::Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie'Remember s cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they want you deadhave sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

Something for Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to bear guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in mind along with the fatalsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, unintended consequences Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of permitting cheap cheese into her home and the UKones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800372</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John R FultzT Kingfisher|title=Seven Kings: Books of the Shaper: Volume 2Thornhedge

|summary= Runaway slave Tong suicidally avenges his lost love but death seems ''You had a right to elude himretake your place. Meanwhile King Vireon is happily married to the beautiful shape-shifting sorceress Alua, although his sister has problems with her husband, King D'zan. A courtesan is carrying his baby; odder still when you realise he' T Kingfisher's impotent. The Twin Kings latest novella is a lovely reimagining of Uruz, scholarly Lyrilan a fairytale that is well known and war-hungry Tyro, can't agree on how to rule so Tyro's wife Talondra puts well beloved. But whilst there is a real spanner princess trapped in the works to force a decisiontower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. However bad their lives currently areInstead, evil our protagonist is spreading through their world like Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a dark shadow new-born baby and, secreted away to make things worse still, Ianthe the Claw land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and Gammir the Reborn aren't as dead as everyone supposes them to becast spells. (You'd think the clue would be in Gammir's name wouldn't you?)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500829</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author=Melanie Rawn|title=Glass Thorns - Touchstone |rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Cayden is Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a hybrid being part elf, fae home and human but all wizardwhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. He also has a day job But as some as a tregetour or playwright with his own touring companyshe enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, Touchstone. They're ambitious and planning the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to get through protect the trials city and into the upper flight. As you would expect its citizens from a wizard, this troupe doesn't just act; they also weave magic imbued in hallucinations plagues and encased in glass withiescurses. The problem is they're short of a glisterall-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, a troupe's wielder of withies. Or rather they were until Mieka arrives. Actually short's a good world as he's Artemisia – an elf but he also happens to be the best glister anyone's ever seen, thorns permitting. With one problem solved, another remains. Namely prophetic dreams that have haunted Cade since boyhood ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and they aren't improving, in fact they're more like nightmarestheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166609</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Rosanne Licata|title=Blood Bonds: The Caravan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Raj is part ArabSet in the near-distant future, part Roman. She's independent and strong-willed - too independent and strong-willed to fit well into in a society where women belong in the home and only men can bring change to the world. So she runs away. Disguised as a boy, she is roaming on the streets verge of Antioch when she encounters Bjornolfclimate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a Danish king. Drawn hero (or several) to him in a way she can't explain, Raj stows away on save the caravan he is guardingday and rescue what little remains. As What no-one expected was that one of the journey continues, Raj must decide whether Knights of the Round Table would answer the terrible dangers to both Bjornolf and herself are worth risking if she reveals her true nature to him..call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1770975667</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celia FriedmanAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Legacy Of Kings (Magister 3)Delilah Recovered

|summary=Three years is We meet Dee at a long time point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to wait between parts look up. Out of a trilogywork, about to lose her flat, especially one as good as Celia FriedmanDee is up for an accountant's Magister Trilogyjob. IBut it'm s not someone blessed with great patience, which has made to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the wait interminable, attack but finally I get not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to find out what happened do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to Kamala her and things will never be the other Magisters and to see how Salvator Aurelius is coping with being the first Penitent Kingsame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495360</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsHadeer Elsbai|title=Aralorn: Masques and WolfbsaneThe Daughters of Izdihar

|summary=Here is what seems quite a rum [[:Category:Patricia Briggs|Patricia Briggs]] compendium – her first attempt at a fantasy novelDrawing inspiration from Egypt, published and read by roughly six men and an orc back in ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the early 1990slives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and what would appear the fourth book weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the same series, dusted off after they both got a rewrite in 2010upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and together at last for then join the curious completistmilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. And if Giorgina on the rewriting ironed out other hand did not have a few creases it shows just how much there was needed done – privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the first book is still full Daughters of minor problems Izdihar – a man immune to, or invisible to, magic unless when it's needed group campaigning for the plot, a host of exposition all throughout, and much that marks it down as a debut effort. It doesn't mean itwomen's not worth reading however.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501647</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Butcher|title=Cold Days|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Happy birthday Harry Dresden! And what a birthday as life becomes a little hectic for the Winter Court Knightrights. He returns Giorgina also happens to life be in time to fight in the Winter Palace, have love with Nico. What follows is a near death experience at the hands story of darkan unjust society, mini-people, then is nearly killed again (by a friend this time) and his island of Demonreach is about to explode taking a chunk of the USA filled with it. He therefore has 24 hours to save some world. Oh, hypocrisy and you know those headaches he's been having? HIs head is on the verge of exploding too. Indeedcruelty, it's the sort from which blossoms a group of birthday that it's hardly worth reanimating admirable women fighting fortheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500896</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BullingtonHeather Fawcett|title=The Folly Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the WorldFaeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=It Emily Wilde is the 1420san expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and a lot of what we now think researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of as The Netherlands is underwaterfaeries. Crossing the deluge Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is a most unlikely trio – a posh man seeking something not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the help small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the othersvillage matriarch, including a girl who she is not sure what she has survived his sometimes-fatal testdone, nor how to redeem herself and a manic fellow fresh from saving himself upon the gallows, who might or might not have been down to hell in put her final investigations for her book back on the interimright track. What that quest isEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and how it will lead to nightmaresinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, deaths galore all charm and a lot of other interesting parts of the storydelight, is for you much to discover, in this absorbing cross-genre pieceEmily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500888</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graeme K TalboysChristopher Golden|title=Stealing Into Winter: being the first adventure from the chronicles Road of Jeniche of Antar Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Streetwise young thief Jeniche wakes up to find her prison cellThe Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's walls collapsing around hermost notorious routes. This is no natural disaster but an invasion by For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the Occassanspermafrost surrounding it, mercilessly brandishing while its 'mosketsspring'sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, weapons that fire death rendering the native Makamban cudgels futileapocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Whilst scouring the streets Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and avoiding the marauding armyother Siberian minerals, Jeniche visits old haunts, checking on her friends and wondering what because he wanted to do nextgive too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. This last part is solved You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for her: a band one of Tunduri monks and nunsour main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, including their young Godis a film-King himselfmaker, want doing a guide recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to take them home fruition to Tundur, claw back some of the land of winter beyond funds he'd invested in the desertpair's prior TV projects. The journey may be hazardous but nothing's safe anymore, and They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, accompanied by gain the muscular, slow-witted stable ownercompany of a local beauty, Trag and mysterious swordsman Alltud, their journey beginsfetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178099625X</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Iron JackalDebt Collection Book 1)

|summary=For once I don't feel like devoting my first paragraph to 'Matt has a teasing plot summaryterrible life. And while ISeriously—it'm here to judge the book and not the cover, even the British paperback blurb agrees, and gives nothing away in its woollinesss awful. I am duty bound to say this It is so bad that Dan the third book to feature Darian Frey and the rest of the crew of Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his flying craft the ''Ketty Jay''. If pressed I will say it starts with him indulging in a further instance infernal offer: 10 years of thievery, making a mistake, and then finding just how much is blissful life in the science fantasy universe that can possibly get between him and what might repair the damageexchange for his soul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620853</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Kate Griffin|title=Stray Souls|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sharon Li has a normal job in a London coffee shop but doesnPoor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel normalsorry for soul-catching demons. She's beginning to realise she's But he really is a shamanterrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, especially when she is so at one with he fails to get even Matt to sign on the citydotted line, she vanishes. In order to meet others whohe'll understand, she starts Magicals Anonymous, a self-help group for the mystically confused coming to terms with their gifts. The meetings come with various beverages, biscuits, a Facebook page and a very good turnout. However all is not herbal tea and crunchy-creams as someone or something seems to be stealing the spirits s so desperate that make Londonhe simply forges Matt's soul and another something walks the streets tearing people limb from limb. The city is dying and gradually Sharon realises that Magicals Anonymous are more than just a social group. As odd as it sounds to look at them, the Midnight Mayor wants them to save the capitalsignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500640</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreview|author=Holly Black|title=Red Glove (Curse Workers 2)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassel lives in a world where magic is frowned upon. Practice is banned and everyone wears gloves to prevent being worked. Cassel himself is a transformation worker - the rarest type. And he is the most powerful transformation worker in living memory. This makes him extremely valuable to the crime families who use curses to support and maintain their empires. It also makes him extremely dangerous as far as the authorities are concerned. And that's why Cassel tries to keep his status to himself, since he discovered it in the [[The White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1) by Holly Black|first book]] in this ''Curse Workers'' sequence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575096764</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brent WeeksOlivie Blake|title=The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer 2)Atlas Six|rating=4.5

|summary=Gavin Guile thought he had five years left to complete his seven great purposes. But now it seems he has less than one. He might be the Prism - the most powerful light drafter in the Seven SatrapiesDark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, capable of drafting huge amounts of light without risk of losing his mind to the colours - but he's lost blue. He can't see it or draft itThe Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499072</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stefan BachmannDaniel Abraham|title=The PeculiarAge of Ash

|summary=We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate''Don't get yourself noticed s four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and you won't get yourself hangeda meeting that she dreads.'' Such is life for peculiars like Bartholomew Kettle and his sister Hettie. Their mother is human but their - absent - father Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a Sidhe, a high fairy. Fairies are contemptuous point in the turning of years when the half-breed peculiars and humans distrust worlds are at their thinnest and suspect them. Hapless peculiar children all things are often hanged by humanspossible. And, even more worryingly, bodies It is the night between the funeral of peculiars have been turning up recently, quite dead, covered in ancient faerie script a Prince and as empty the coronation of bone and organ as they are of lifehis successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062195182</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay KristoffAnn Sei Lin|title=StormdancerRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Warrior Masaru Kurara has raised his daughterspent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, Yukiko, alone since his wife left. Yukiko is now 16; a feat more due latterly massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to her own strength drink and resourcefulness than his caremake merry between their conquests. For since his wife's departureHowever, Masaru has gone when a man named Himura arrives to piecestell her that she is a Crafter like him, addicted someone with the power to gambling and form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the narcotic effects of lotus smokeEmpire. The days when he was the legendary Black Fox are behind He asks her to come with him which is a shame as , to leave the Shogun (not a man known for calm reasoning or lack life of ferocity) dreary servitude that is all she has a mission for themknown. MasaruWell, Yukiko and an entourage must hunt and capture the legendary stormtiger. But they're extinct arensoon Kurara won't they? Wellhave any say in the matter, no, they aren't as Yukiko discovers when because the hunt goes terribly wrong and she's left alone with just Midori is destroyed by a storm tiger for company. She fights to find monstrous paper spirit known as a way homeshikigami, learning as and she goes the full extent is forced to which the Shogun has worked against the good of flee out into the nation in general and her family in particularworld. And She joins Himura aboard the stormtiger? Let's just say he's had his wings clipped Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and he's not happy about it.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230759017</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=G Willow WilsonB09Q3P283Y|title=Alif the UnseenShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=54

|summary=Alif lives under an alias and he has a good reason Clyde Robbins signs up for that: hethe US Army during the Vietnam War. He's a hakinista not really that invested in an Arabian oil producing country that, to put it mildly, doesn't encourage free speech. He sells IT know-how and wizardy to any covert organisation that works the fight against the governmentCommunism, their agenda unimportant as long as the aim nor is he particularly interested in a career in the downfall of their oppressionmilitary. But all thatIf he's about to change as Alif falls in love honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices andthis one, as it's the wrong girl at the wrong timeleast, is spurned. His response to this romantic let down is to create a computer programme that will identify her internet activity by her individual typing pattern. Unfortunately what works for gets him also works against him. Itout of the rut he's captured by the notoriously dangerous government censor 'The Hand' who also wants Alif and his hidden network of colleaguesin. Now Alif runs to preserve his life and those who have trusted him, his only possession an ancient manuscript from his former love. Just a book, albeit one thatHe's accompanied by myths good in training and old wives' tales rendering it irrelevant is quickly put onto a logical worldnon commissioned officer training course. However, sometimes the most desperate of times requires more than logic and, sometimes, a mere book of stories may be more than it seemsHe's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857895664</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaJennifer Saint|title=Taken: An Alex Verus NovelElektra|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Alex Verus, future-diviner and erstwhile Camden magic shop owner has dusted himself off after 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the rigours story of [[Cursed: An Alex Verus Novel by Benedict Jacka|Cursed]] and is good to go once more. He continues training Luna as his apprentice but all is not completely well. Alex has been asked to investigate three women who live in the disappearance heavily male dominated world of apprentices by Council representativeAncient Greece. Cassandra, Talisid. NowClytemnestra, Alex's involvement with the Council (and indeed Talisid) hasn't always been good for Alex's health Elektra are all bit players in the past, but his commissioning may be a sign story of his enhanced reputation and this time there's a note of self-interest: Luna may be the next to vanishTrojan War. Alex receives a tip-off Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that Fountain's Reach (a stately home with a mysterious past) has something to do with it and, as luck would often the silent women have it, it's also the venue for the next apprentice tournament which Luna has entered. The investigation begins most compelling stories and hopefully they'll survive to see it through to the endmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500268</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine FisherDean Koontz|title=The Obsidian MirrorQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=JakeMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's father disappeared while working on lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a secret project with his best friendthree-day old foundling, the celebrated explorer and recluse Oberon Venn. Jake is sure that Venn now is starting a career on a murderer and sets out needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to prove sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call itunearthly intuition, dragging his teacher, Mr Wharton, into the investigation. But the truth is perhaps even more frightening: David Wilde isn't deadcall it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he's lost in time. Venn and his sidekick Piers are intent on re-entering the past go to a derelict diner, find hima gold coin worth a fortune, using a device called cash the Chronoptika. But value of it's dangerous out of his bank and they aren't the only ones hell bent prepare for going on using the lam. And all this is just in time machine. There's Sarah, who can for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn herself invisible, up and whosuggest he's being pursued by a murderous Replicant and his wolfof interest to them. And there's the scarred man with Helped to escape, he finds his acolyte and his strange weapon. And there are flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the Shee, who keep their own counsel, but have their own ambitions, discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and who enchant the forest on Venn's estate..a whole lot more besides. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970081</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janet EvanovichTasha Suri|title=Wicked BusinessThe Jasmine Throne

|summary=A young womanOn the night of her sacred burning, newly marriedPrincess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. Discovering her husband She is not all he seemsimmediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. That he has secretsBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. That she has needsOne day, wantsMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, desires. That she will need Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to take things into become her own hands if she is ever to be satisfied in her new role as wifepersonal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007163541</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongGenevieve Gornichec|title=13 (Women of the Otherworld)The Witch's Heart|rating=3.54

|summary=''13'' picks up where ''Spell Bound'' left off. A terrorist group is still trying to expose modern and approachable reimagining of the supernaturals and create Norse myths that centres around a new world orderwitch named Angrboda. Our heroes, from among She hides in a forest at the ranks edge of the werewolvesnine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the witchesstake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, the half-demonshowever, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the vampiresstake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, the necromancers and the sorcerer cabalsAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, are trying to stop them. Savannah takes centre stage and the majority two start an unusual family made of the narration. Her spells are still on the fritz but she thinks she knows why up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and she survived the explosionanother son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498033</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lilith SaintcrowHannah Whitten|title=The Iron Wyrm AffairFor the Wolf|rating=4.5

|summary=Someone is killing off Mentaths - geniusesIn Red's family, logic machines - in the city of London first daughter becomes queen, and itthe second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's up to Emma Bannonmisfortune, sorcerer Primeshe is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to protect their next target Archibald Clare. Emma expect: within the woods is powerful a wolf, and resourceful, but she has problems he is the one who will decide the fate of her own - such as whether their kingdom. If she can trust her Shieldis not a worthy sacrifice, Mikalthe monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, who killed and the last sorcerer whose service fabled kings he was inkeeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. And while Clare is as keen as she But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to uncover be killed within the conspiracy behind the murdershour, she finds that the illogical world of sorcery and the logical minds of Mentaths donlegends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he't mix wells a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500926</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinJohn Gwynne|title=The Shadowed Sun: Dreamblood: Book 2|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Ten years after the events of [[The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 by N K Jemisin|The Killing Moon]], the events of the earlier book have left their mark on the world. Gujaareh is now under the oppressive rule of the Kisuati Protectorate. Worse, a plague of nightmares is killing the once peaceful city's inhabitants in their sleep. It falls to two unlikely heroes, Wanahomen, son of the late Prince, and Hanani, the first female to train as one of Hananja's priesthood, to try to save the city from both of these problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500772</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeanette Winterson|title=Shadow Of The Daylight Gate|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=1610s Lancashire, and Alice Nutter is the best landowner you could wish for. Single, rich and connected, she takes no sides in the religious schisms James I has inherited, and takes no bull from those trying to oppress the poor, putting them up and feeding them when no-one else will. But those poor are seen as sinful by others - amoral, dirty in mind, body and spirit, and in league with the devil. And people are beginning to question Alice's attitudes, choice of company - and ageless beauty. This, then, is the based-on-truth story of how Alice Nutter got to be one of the accused in the Pendle Witch trials.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099561859</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stuart Sharp|title=Court of Dreams|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Thomas and Nicola are no longer students. Finals finished, Nicola can start planning life after uni and with Thomas... and then he dumps her. To be fair, Thomas has a great job offer abroad and doesn't think that Nicola would want to go but Nicola's still flaming angry. Adhering to the 'and another thing' school of arguing, Nicola tracks Thomas down. He's already busy dealing with someone but being the assertive modern woman she is, Nicola barges in front of the hit man attempting to kill her now ex-boyfriend so she can give him yet another piece of her mind. In the ensuing tussle (hit man trying to skewer Thomas and Thomas trying to prevent Nicola from becoming an ex-person as well as an ex-girlfriend) the formerly blissful couple fall back into a tree... and then onwards, through the tree towards somewhere that's other worldly in all meanings of the phrase. For they land in the Court of Dreams, which isn't necessarily a good thing. Meanwhile the tumble has separated Nicola and Thomas, the hit man is not only determined but also a local lad so knows his way around and Thomas' mother has neglected to tell him a thing or two about his origins, as he's just about to find out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0982991320</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Boccacino|title=Charlotte Markham and the House of DarklingGods

|summary=Widowed under tragic circumstances, Charlotte Markham needs an income and so she's employed by widower Henry Darrow as a governess for his sons James and Paul. Their home 'Everton' may seem a typical Victorian mansion but The Shadow Of The Gods is the town first installment of Blackfield isn't your average English small town; the Darrow's Nanny Prum is found murdered Bloodsworn Saga, set in a particularly grisly manner. It's a mystery to the local police but Charlotte's friend Susannah has a clue if only they'd listen to her. Meanwhile the Darrow boys' nights are spent dreaming era of a house in the woods where their mother still lives. Charlotte decides to treat this head on and takes them for a walk to show them there's no substance to it. However, Vikings in doing so they discover the nightmare that is The House shadow of Darkling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781164460</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K J Parker|title=Sharps|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Fencing - it's such an exoticRagnarok, rarefied world with it's own language, that it's no surprise to remember when the director of ''Alien'', ''Blade Runner'' Gods have battled and ''Prometheus'' started his career with a fencing film. And it's their bones lie scattered for all over this fantasy, but not in the usual sword-and-sorcery way of old, as a delegation of swordsmen and -women visit Permia from Scheria - two fencing-loving countries that until recently have been at warto see. But why exactly are they going - separately, and as a group? Who This story is playing what kind of diplomatic game between the two countriesultimate in High Fantasy, and is a wielded sword John Gwynne certainly does justice to the only danger they'll face?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499269</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Courtenay Grimwood|title=The Outcast Blade|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=After defeating the armies that threatened Venice single handedly, the newly knighted Sir Tycho finds himself with statusmythical creatures, wealth archaic language and the subject of much interest to the Venetian citizensbattles galore. But all Tycho really wants This is Lady Giuliettaa thick book, niece of the city's steward. Giulietta, grieving her dead husband, is desperate with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to escape the backstabbing, poisonous create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world of the Venetian court, and isn't in the mood for Tycho's clumsy attempts to woo herwhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498475</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Cursed: An Alex Verus Novel|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=A beautiful enchantress steps through the door just as an evil construct beast hurtles through the window. Not an obtuse Chinese saying, but a typical day in the life of future-diviner and magic shop owner, Alex Verus. Add Move on to this the benign magical animal that seems to have died mysteriously and unmarked and you begin to realise something's afoot. It's the sort of day that could only be made worse by the realisation that Alex's curse-soaked friend Luna has fallen in love with someone other than Alex and... yes, the downward spiral has just taken another turn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650025X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Farr|title=Moon Crossing|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Wil Calloway returns to Saran in the most unwelcome of circumstances. Tally, Lady Elanor's young sister, has been abducted by the evil Lord Rexmoore in an attempt to find the whereabouts of the Legacy. Tally doesn't know it, but that won't save her. So Wil has come to rejoin his Fellmen friends and mount a rescue mission. But it's not going to be easy. Gisella and Mortimer aren't talking. Seth is as accident-prone as ever. And Leon and his father are still deeply suspicious about Wil's part in Giles's death during the last Moon Chase. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781485151</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]